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A lot of our clients give priority to the development of an iOS (Apple) app over an Android app. Considering the usage of iOS compared to Android, and the spending characteristics of the iOS users, that is a valid approach.

Bringing Virtual Reality into the retail space is a trend that continues to grow. If your company has decided to make this technological step, this post will layout the questions to consider before moving forward.

Matching your retail space with VR hardware is a difficult task. If you read our previous blog post, “Trying to Make Virtual Reality a Reality in Your Retail Space? - Here’s What You Should Consider,”...

For the 2017 Summer Building Buzz convention to be held in Salt Lake City in August, the Flooring America / Flooring Canada team at CCA has launched a completely new iOS and Android convention app that is provides custom order management for members, virtual queues and all convention information.

GLSS launched the first generation of their mobile app to help those caring for Alzheimer sufferers build patience, perseverance and peace.
The app contains a variety of tools, activities and tips that have been prepared by the team at GLSS who have a long history of supporting caregivers.

Provant launched mobile versions of their industry-leading Humology participant portal for iOS and Android this month. Executing on their mobile-first strategy to bring features to all devices accessed by employees participating in Provant’s corporate wellness programs.

Building awareness is a process with many steps and many options. However, whatever the plan, it needs to start the first day of your project with design choices that allow users to easily learn about and share your app through free access to a great “starter” content, multiple reasons to share and easy ways to provide feedback.

This is where the fun starts — seeing your vision becomes something you can start using and sharing. There are two fundamentals in the process of bringing your vision to live a) an experienced, multifaceted team and b) reliable tools that are easy to use.

OK, you have an app that you want to build, a rough idea of its key functions and how it will support your business. Next up is the design phase which will now make or break your mobile project.

About Us

We love working with our clients to build unique applications.

We offer professional services across the entire project spectrum from fleshing out application ideas to coding to post-launch support. Our clients hail from the energy, retail, financial services, and media verticals.

Ballast Lane Applications is a team of seasoned product managers, developers, designers and testers dedicated to our craft. We work closely with our clients’ product and technical teams to deploy new mobile applications, responsive web applications and backend API’s.

The firm was founded in 2011 with offices in Boston, MA, and Medellin, Colombia.

Working with both agile and lean methodologies we deliver app and web solutions within time frames of several weeks. We can provide everything from MVPs to full working interfaces for iOS, Android, Web and full backend stacks.

Strategy

Product Management and Positioning

Our design and technical teams have deep experience in app and web development and will build an integrated strategy in line with your product management and roadmap.

Technology

Architecture, Development and Testing

We are an iOS, Android, full-stack mobile app and web development house offering custom solutions from concept to polished product. All our development work is done by our in-house, end-to-end developers.

Design

UI/UX Design

We help you kickstart your UI/UX mobile app and web design by creating a superior user experience and wireframing out your idea within a time frame of weeks.

Market Success

Feedback, Improvement, and Support

We not only design and develop world-class mobile apps and web solutions but also help our clients market their apps and increase their visibility in the markets.

OUR PROCESS

We help our clients execute complex multi-layered projects.

We are proud of our long-term relationships with our clients. We work together to build and support products that add real business value.

Planning

Our project managers align the schedule with the design and development team as well as your timeframe.

Collaborative development

Our developers working in teams will give you well structured, reusable and robust code.

Support

Once your project is live we will support and update your design and code with a full SLA.

Concept & Strategy

Our creative and technical teams help shape and focus your product concepts in line with your strategy.

Design & Architecture

Our design team will wireframe out your idea and then deliver full assets for production.